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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 1. Ideology

[general ideas about theories of political principle]

10 ideas
The Stoics saw the whole world as a city [Stoic school, by Long]
The best government blends democracy, monarchy and aristocracy [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
A group is only dangerous if it endorses an abstract entity [Weil]
Ideology is 'socially necessary illusion' or 'socially necessary false-consciousness' [Adorno, by Finlayson]
Ideologies are mythologies which guide our actions [Solomon]
Political theory should not focus on the state or economy, but on the small scale of power [Deleuze/Guattari, by May]
An ideology judges things now, and offers an ideal, with a strategy for reaching it [Dobson]
In the 1950s they said ideology is finished, and expertise takes over [Lukes]
Political choice can be by utility, or maximin, or maximax [Wolff,J]
Constitutional Patriotism unites around political values (rather than national identity) [Shorten]